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The Last Wagon

1956 · 99 min

A patient, sun-baked frontier trek where distrust slowly turns to trust, tense with ambush and quiet with grief.

Directed by: Delmer Daves
Genres: Western
Starring: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner

Tagline: Nothing Could Stop the Last Wagon From Coming Through!
Overview: When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.

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Directed by: Delmer Daves
Genres: Western
Starring: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
identity
family
justice
Places: wilderness
countryside
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	5
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: western
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Written by: Delmer Daves, James Edward Grant, Gwen Bagni
Starring: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig, Stephanie Griffin, Ray Stricklyn, Nick Adams, Carl Benton Reid
Music: Lionel Newman
Cinematography: Wilfrid M. Cline
Runtime: 99 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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